Longborough Festival Opera and Its Mini-Ring. Lecture with slides by Martin Graham (founder-director of the Longborough Festival Opera).

“The Convergence of Fantasy and Geography in Wagner” – lecture by Prof. Rolf Sternberg, Montclair State University.

Overview of New York City Opera’s Der fliegende Holländer conductor. Commentary and panel discussion with participants.

Lecture with slides by Prof. Alessandra Comini, Southern Methodist University.

Lecture by Xavier Nicolás (Presiden of Asociación Wagneriana de Barcelona) on the 100th Anniversary of the Asociación and a discussion with slides of José Mestres Cabanes (Spanish painter and set designer).

Lecture, with musical illustrations, by Jonathan Lewsey, British writer/lecturer, author of Who’s Who and What’s What in Wagner.

Panel discussion by Society members who attended the new Bayreuth Ring production by Jürgen Flimm.

Lecture with slides by Prof. Henry-Louis de la Grange, noted biographer of Gustav Mahler.

Lecture by Jonathan Khuner, coach and prompter in Bayreuth, San Francisco Opera, and the Met Walküre.

Speakers: Prof. John L. DiGaetani, on Carlo Gozzi’s play La Donna Serpente (the source of Wagner’s early opera), and Suzanne M. Lodato, Ph.D., on Wagner’s Die Feen.

Commemorative Series: Program honoring the great American soprano. Presenters: Geoffrey S. Riggs and Alfred Hubay.